2009 postseason · rankings
2009 MLB Postseason Pitching Leaders
24 players from 8 clubs qualified, ranked by ERA. October is short and uneven — one club plays two games, another nineteen — so the qualifier is 1.0 innings pitched per game the player's own club played, and never fewer than 5. None of it counts toward the regular-season leaders.
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| 1 | Mariano Rivera | Panama | 40 | World Series | 12 | 0 | 16.0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 0.56 | 0.94 | 7.9 | 2.8 |
| 2 | Adam Wainwright | United States | 28 | Division Series | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1.13 | 0.50 | 7.9 | 1.1 |
| 3 | Cliff Lee | United States | 31 | World Series | 5 | 5 | 40.1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 6 | 1.56 | 0.82 | 7.4 | 1.3 |
| 4 | Nick Blackburn | United States | 27 | Division Series | 1 | 1 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1.59 | 0.88 | 4.8 | 3.2 |
| 5 | CC Sabathia | United States | 29 | World Series | 5 | 5 | 36.1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 9 | 1.98 | 1.02 | 7.9 | 2.2 |
| 6 | John Lackey | United States | 31 | LCS | 3 | 3 | 19.2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 2.29 | 1.32 | 6.4 | 3.2 |
| 7 | Carl Pavano | United States | 33 | Division Series | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2.57 | 0.71 | 11.6 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Jered Weaver | United States | 27 | LCS | 4 | 2 | 13.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 2.63 | 0.95 | 9.2 | 4.0 |
| 9 | Andy Pettitte | United States | 37 | World Series | 5 | 5 | 30.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11 | 3.52 | 1.21 | 7.3 | 3.2 |
| 10 | Clay Buchholz | United States | 25 | Division Series | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3.60 | 1.40 | 5.4 | 1.8 |
| 11 | Vicente Padilla | Nicaragua | 32 | LCS | 3 | 3 | 17.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 3.63 | 0.92 | 6.8 | 2.1 |
| 12 | Pedro Martínez | Dominican Republic | 38 | World Series | 3 | 3 | 17.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 3.71 | 0.88 | 8.5 | 2.1 |
| 13 | Joe Saunders | United States | 28 | LCS | 2 | 2 | 10.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 4.35 | 1.84 | 4.4 | 5.2 |
| 14 | Jon Lester | United States | 25 | Division Series | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4.50 | 1.33 | 7.5 | 6.0 |
| 15 | Randy Wolf | United States | 33 | LCS | 2 | 2 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 5.00 | 1.89 | 4.0 | 7.0 |
| 16 | Joe Blanton | United States | 29 | World Series | 4 | 2 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5.17 | 1.21 | 5.7 | 2.3 |
| 17 | Ubaldo Jiménez | Dominican Republic | 25 | Division Series | 2 | 2 | 12.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5.25 | 1.50 | 8.3 | 2.3 |
| 18 | A.J. Burnett | United States | 32 | World Series | 5 | 5 | 27.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 16 | 5.27 | 1.39 | 7.9 | 5.3 |
| 19 | Josh Beckett | United States | 29 | Division Series | 1 | 1 | 6.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5.40 | 0.90 | 4.0 | 1.3 |
| 20 | Aaron Cook | United States | 30 | Division Series | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5.40 | 1.80 | 7.2 | 3.6 |
| 21 | Clayton Kershaw | United States | 21 | LCS | 3 | 2 | 13.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 6.07 | 1.57 | 6.8 | 4.7 |
| 22 | Chris Carpenter | United States | 34 | Division Series | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7.20 | 2.60 | 5.4 | 7.2 |
| 23 | Cole Hamels | United States | 26 | World Series | 4 | 4 | 19.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 7.58 | 1.53 | 7.1 | 1.9 |
| 24 | Scott Kazmir | United States | 25 | LCS | 3 | 2 | 10.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 7.59 | 1.78 | 3.4 | 6.8 |
Reading this table
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are all measured against a league season, and a dozen clubs playing each other's best pitchers for a month is not one — borrowing the regular season's baselines would print numbers that look comparable and are not. Reached is the last round the player's club played in. The Parquet holds every round as well as the October totals. See the methodology →